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This week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatens to change the cloture process for executive branch nominations via a simple majority — a maneuver called the nuclear option. Just the threat prompted Republican Leader Mitch McConnell to declare Reid the worst Senate leader in history. Rules changes or not, it is hard to see how the two leaders or their caucuses will cooperate in the near future. …

“It surprises a lot of people that Janice [Hahn] and I are friends, and I don’t know who it bothers more, the Republicans or the Democrats,” Ted Poe joked. The two representatives from opposing parties came together for a forum on civil discourse at Abilene Christian University on Thursday. …

Texas lawmakers are expected to divide largely along party lines when they cast a final vote on the debt-ceiling deal. But most of them are laying low and avoiding the press in the hours leading up to the final vote. Thus far, the key lawmakers speaking out in favor of the deal are Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, Rep. Pete Olson and Rep. Kevin Brady. The most prominent unannounced Texan: Sen. John Cornyn. …

As Congress and the Obama administration continue debt negotiations, a number of plans have arisen but members of both parties are still playing a game of chicken, waiting for the other to back down.
Speaker John Boehner attempted to shape a plan to raise the debt ceiling Sunday to save the financial markets in Sydney, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The effort was in vain, the markets opened weak but intact. …